OAPEN Library Membership Program

Your Library Toolkit for OA Monographs Through OAPEN

OAPEN provides a dedicated infrastructure to support the discoverability of OA books. OAPEN hosts OA titles from many academic book publishers (including all titles provided through KU) and collaborates with research funders through its deposit service (Wellcome, European Research Council, Austrian Science Fund, Swiss National Science Foundation). Currently over 5,000 OA titles are hosted on OAPEN, accounting for nearly half of all the titles available in the Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB).

The OAPEN Library membership programme is set up specifically for libraries and their institutions. Thanks to their membership contributions, member libraries make possible the vital work of OAPEN and DOAB for libraries, scholars and the general public, to provide free and unrestricted access, improve discovery, and preserve scholarly books. OAPEN members are entitled to receive customised feeds of all the OAPEN collections, obtain regular usage benchmark reports and general reports regarding the transition to OA books. In addition, OAPEN members are listed in OAPEN’s website and newsletters.

Why join the OAPEN Library Membership Program?

Deposit Service: Consists of an institutional uploading service for OA books and chapters by researchers affiliated with the member institution

Early Access to industry reports: Early access to reports tracking developments in
the transition to Open Access, such as OA book publishers and models, licensing, policies, projects, and the growth of publications and usage

MARC21 Records creation: OAPEN members are entitled to enhanced metadata
feeds for the entire OAPEN database, with full MARC21 records and other formats, enhanced with identifiers to link OA books to other (non-OA) editions (ISBNs and OCLC control numbers).

Usage Reports and Benchmarks: OAPEN members receive regular reports regarding
the usage of OAPEN collections within their institution, and benchmark reports analysing usage of OA books and usage for their institution.

The OAPEN Library membership programme is set up specifically for libraries and their institutions.

Thanks to their membership contributions, member libraries make possible the vital work of OAPEN and DOAB for libraries, scholars and the general public, to provide free and unrestricted access, improve discovery, and preserve scholarly books.

OAPEN members are listed in OAPEN’s website and newsletters.

OAPEN members are entitled to receive customised feeds of all the OAPEN collections, obtain regular usage benchmark reports and general reports regarding the transition to OA books.

Members enjoy the benefits of the Deposit service, early access to industry reports, monthly usage reports and benchmarking insights, access to customised MARC21 feeds for the entire OAPEN database

If your institution is in Norway, the US, Canada, Italy, France or the UK: we offer differential pricing for these regions. Please contact us to get your individual quote.